Yucheng Sheng

Yucheng Sheng, Kai Huang, Le Liang et al.

In this letter, we use large language models (LLMs) to develop a high-performing and robust beam prediction method. We formulate the millimeter wave (mmWave) beam prediction problem as a time series forecasting task, where the historical observations are aggregated through cross-variable attention and then transformed into text-based representations using a trainable tokenizer. By leveraging the prompt-as-prefix (PaP) technique for contextual enrichment, our method harnesses the power of LLMs to predict future optimal beams. Simulation results demonstrate that our LLM-based approach outperforms traditional learning-based models in prediction accuracy as well as robustness, highlighting the significant potential of LLMs in enhancing wireless communication systems.

Yucheng Sheng, Le Liang, Hao Ye et al.

Cooperative perception, offering a wider field of view than standalone perception, is becoming increasingly crucial in autonomous driving. This perception is enabled through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, allowing connected automated vehicles (CAVs) to exchange sensor data, such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds, thereby enhancing the collective understanding of the environment. In this paper, we leverage an importance map to distill critical semantic information, introducing a cooperative perception semantic communication framework that employs intermediate fusion. To counter the challenges posed by time-varying multipath fading, our approach incorporates the use of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) along with channel estimation and equalization strategies. Furthermore, recognizing the necessity for reliable transmission, especially in the low SNR scenarios, we introduce a novel semantic error detection method that is integrated with our semantic communication framework in the spirit of hybrid automatic repeated request (HARQ). Simulation results show that our model surpasses the traditional separate source-channel coding methods in perception performance, both with and without HARQ. Additionally, in terms of throughput, our proposed HARQ schemes demonstrate superior efficiency to the conventional coding approaches.

Yucheng Sheng, Jiacheng Wang, Le Liang et al.

The aggressive densification of modern wireless networks necessitates judicious resource allocation to mitigate severe mutual interference. However, classical iterative algorithms remain computationally prohibitive for real-time applications requiring rapid responsiveness. While recent deep learning-based methods show promise, they typically function as task-specific solvers lacking the flexibility to adapt to different objectives and scenarios without expensive retraining. To address these limitations, we propose a graph foundation model for resource allocation (GFM-RA) based on a pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm to extract unified representations, thereby enabling rapid adaptation to different objectives and scenarios. Specifically, we introduce an interference-aware Transformer architecture with a bias projector that injects interference topologies into global attention mechanisms. Furthermore, we develop a hybrid self-supervised pre-training strategy that synergizes masked edge prediction with negative-free Teacher-Student contrastive learning, enabling the model to capture transferable structural representations from massive unlabeled datasets. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance and scales effectively with increased model capacity. Crucially, leveraging its unified representations, the foundation model exhibits exceptional sample efficiency, enabling robust few-shot adaptation to diverse and unsupervised downstream objectives in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. These results demonstrate the promise of pre-trained foundation models for adaptable wireless resource allocation and provide a strong foundation for future research on generalizable learning-based wireless optimization.

Le Liang, Hao Ye, Yucheng Sheng et al.

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized artificial intelligence, offering unprecedented capabilities in reasoning, generalization, and zero-shot learning. These strengths open new frontiers in wireless communications, where increasing complexity and dynamics demand intelligent and adaptive solutions. This article explores the role of LLMs in transforming wireless systems across three key directions: adapting pretrained LLMs for core communication tasks, developing wireless-specific foundation models to balance versatility and efficiency, and enabling agentic LLMs with autonomous reasoning and coordination capabilities. We highlight recent advances, practical case studies, and the unique benefits of LLM-based approaches over traditional methods. Finally, we outline open challenges and research opportunities, including multimodal fusion, collaboration with lightweight models, and self-improving capabilities, charting a path toward intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous wireless networks of the future.

Yucheng Sheng, Jiacheng Wang, Xingyu Zhou et al.

With the growing complexity and dynamics of the mobile communication networks, accurately predicting key system parameters, such as channel state information (CSI), user location, and network traffic, has become essential for a wide range of physical (PHY)-layer and medium access control (MAC)-layer tasks. Although traditional deep learning (DL)-based methods have been widely applied to such prediction tasks, they often struggle to generalize across different scenarios and tasks. In response, we propose a unified foundation model for multi-task prediction in wireless networks that supports diverse prediction intervals. The proposed model enforces univariate decomposition to unify heterogeneous tasks, encodes granularity for interval awareness, and uses a causal Transformer backbone for accurate predictions. Additionally, we introduce a patch masking strategy during training to support arbitrary input lengths. After trained on large-scale datasets, the proposed foundation model demonstrates strong generalization to unseen scenarios and achieves zero-shot performance on new tasks that surpass traditional full-shot baselines.